Chapter 842: Poverty, Silence, and a High Mortality Rate
[Not everyone needs to be saved. It's just a minor illness.]
I looked at her identity again. Oh, an internet celebrity with a huge following, a student and a contracted anchor. I presume this is all hype. I'm furious. Even hype... I rewatched the interview videos from the past two days and did some research, hoping to find some clues to this internet celebrity's hype of heroism, but—
I didn't expect this to happen. I apologize for all my malice and preconceptions. I didn't expect this to be such an indescribable world.
There are two pictures below.
One photo shows the interview team's first arrival at Q3, with a stunning shot of the creaking hovercar flying over the queue of people.
Because it's a still image, it's a bit blurry, but it doesn't stop you from recognizing it. This... is a picture of a queue?!
Wait, the audience was shocked when they saw this picture.
(Insert question, holy shit? How long is this line?)
(…No way, no way? So many people lined up?)
(There are so many patients in Q3??)
Then the poster posted a second picture.
This is also a picture Xiaoxiao took when she was interviewing outside the city. It is also a silhouette left by a camera robot that passed by casually.
In the animated image, this silhouette may only be 1/2 second long and not very noticeable, but if you cut it out and circle it with a red pen——
The overhead shot shows heads and heads.
This slightly frontal picture shows a person's body and body. At first glance, you can't see the end.
[Based on some calculations, I figured there were at least tens of thousands of people standing in this photo (taken from above), and the line had no end.]
[And I searched for some information about Q3. Q3 people rarely go online, almost never. Occasionally, some news comes out, but it's always negative, like mining accidents... and some people in the old-school community complained a few years ago about the low salaries of Q3 stars.]
She also attached a few pictures here, all of which are quite old.
It takes some perseverance to dig these things out.
Then she posted some more pictures.
[Look here! These are several videos shot by a federal news crew during the free clinic. They all show students treating members of the public. Before I had this information, I didn't notice anything unusual about these people being so thin.]
[After all, this is an alphabetized planet, and these people are all patients. But——]
A bunch of screenshots appeared. This time they were not screenshots of large scenes, but screenshots of single people, or comparisons between students and patients.
My wife and I carefully scrutinized every scene and every video in these interviews. We captured almost every patient who appeared, and they were all like this.
Each picture is a matchstick-like person.
To be fat means to be fat to the point of being swollen. You don't look wealthy, but rather sick.
Or someone with a hunchback.
Yes, everyone was stunned after watching it...
Why are there so many miserable people here?
[My guess is that the people queuing outside are like this too, because there really isn't a single person who isn't like this.]
What does this mean? It's so hard, it means Q3 is very poor. It's a mining planet... Its annual mineral production is second to none among all planets, and it's mined by humans.
People mining.
People have become like this.
[And I checked the Q3 talent loss situation——]
According to interstellar population reports, over the past decade, over three hundred thousand people have left Planet Q3, arriving on first- and second-tier planets under various pretexts, such as for study, work, and scientific research.
[But these more than 300,000 people almost never mentioned Q3 on social networks.]
This is a question worth pondering.
You could say one feels Q3's origins are ignoble.
But this is more than 300,000 people.
This is the era of StarNet, but these people never post anything on StarNet. This in itself is quite unusual.
[Another thing is the mortality rate. The interstellar population report shows that the population mortality rate in Q3 ranks among the highest in the entire interstellar world.]
[The life expectancy of residents on mining planets is generally low, and the mortality rate is also high, but the percentage reduction is very small, as seen in Q3.]
[In addition, I also looked at the tax payments made by hospitals on their planet, and they were also pitifully low.]
[In conclusion, mining on the Mineral Planet is clearly a high-paying job. These citizens look weathered and seriously ill. The endless procession also indicates that there are many patients on this planet, but the tax revenue of the planet's hospitals—]
I can't say it's small, but compared to the population, I feel like it's not much of a difference.
So, what do you think?
wanan1!jiumi! It’s time to sleep!
(End of this chapter)
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